Current Ornithology
The appearance of the first volume of a projected series is the occasion for comment on scope, aims, and genesis of the work. The scope of Current Ornithology is all of the biology of birds. Ornithology, as a whole-organism science, is concerned with bird
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Current Ornithology Editorial Board William R. Dawson, Ann Arbor, Michigan Frances C. James, Tallahassee, Florida Donald E. Kroodsma, Amherst, Massachusetts Frank A. Pitelka, Berkeley, California Robert J. Raikow, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Robert K. Selander, Rochester, New York
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CURRENT ORNITHOLOGY VOLUME 1 Edited by
RICHARD F. JOHNSTON University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
PLENUM PRESS • NEW YORK AND LONDON
ISBN-13: 978-1-4615-6783-7
e-ISBN-13: 978-1-4615-6781-3
001: 10.1007/978-1-4615-6781-3
©1983 Plenum Press, New York Softcover reprint of the hardcover I st edition 1983 A Division of Plenum Publishing Corporation 233 Spring Street, New York, N.Y. 10013 All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher
CONTRIBUTORS
JON E. AHLQUIST, Peabody Museum of Natural History and Department of Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06511 CYNTHIA CAREY, Department of EPO Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309 KENDALL W. CORBIN, Bell Museum of Natural History and Department of Ecology and Behavioral Biology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 JOEL CRACRAFT, Department of Anatomy, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois 60680; and Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois 60605 NORMAN L. FORD, Department of Biology, legeville, Minnesota 56321
st. John's University, Col-
M. CUMPEL-PINOT, Institut d'Embryologie, Nogent-sur Marne 94130, France J. R. HINCHLIFFE, Zoology Department, University College of Wales, Penglais, Aberystwyth, Dyfed, SY23 3DA, Wales, United Kingdom ELLEN D. KETTERSON, Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405 v
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CONTRIRUTORS
LARRY D. MARTIN, Department of Systematics and Ecology and Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045 VAL NOLAN JR., Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405 ROBERT E. RICKLEFS, Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 J. D. RISING, Department of Zoology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A1 GERALD F. SHIELDS, Institute of Arctic Biology and Division of Life Sciences, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska 99701 CHARLES G. SIBLEY, Peabody Museum of Natural History and Department of Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06511 JEFFREY R. WALTERS, Department of Zoology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27607 DAVID W. WINKLER. Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and Department of Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
PREFACE
The appearance of the first volume of a proj
